“I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“...love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that I could do was cling to him. I did not realize, until I realized it, that I was also kissing him, that everything was breaking and changing and turning in me and moving toward him.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.”
― Social Exclusion
― Social Exclusion
“I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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